Hello all, You probably saw my yesterday post with the first alpha of ReiserStorage. One of the questions that people tend to ask about it is wheter they can use it without reiserfs. There are two problems with not using reiserfs: 1. ReiserStorage (now renamed to DirectoryStorage) stores each object in a separate file and *all* the files in a single directory. This was done in order to let the filesystem what it was meant to do: store and retrieve files quickly. While reiserfs is *extremely* good at this (it uses a btree to store directory entries), most other filesystems do linear searches when finding a file so performance is very bad when you have many files in a single directory. This problem can be solved by splitting files into multiple directories when not using reiserfs. This would add a little overhead but it is tolerable. 2. Waste of space. Typical block-allocation filesystems like ext2 and FAT will waste alot of space in the usage pattern of DirectoryStorage. ReiserFS packs small files together in the btree, so it solves the problem, but I have no ideea how this could be fixed easyly on the other fs's. Comments ? Suggestions ? PS: a new DirectoryStorage release will be done today, with bugfixes and new features. -Petru